Dr. David Eagleman

This is why haircuts evolve.

This is why fashion evolves through the years, because we always care about novelty.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

And so we're always seeking that tension in the middle.

And companies run into this all the time.

Like sometimes they try things that are too novel that just completely fail.

You know, Coca-Cola tried this a long time ago with introducing New Coke and no one liked it or whatever.

And other companies like, what was that company?

Blackberry with the little thumb things that you can press the physical keyboard on the phone.

They failed because they wouldn't change fast enough.

But anyway, companies that make it are always staying in that sweet spot.

It's similar, but it's not the same, which is why with AI you get what we call jagged intelligence, meaning that it can do something so extraordinarily smart and then in the next moment give an answer that's weird and doesn't make any sense.

AI still is doing this.

It's not thinking like we think.

Okay, why?

It's because...

AI, as we think about it now, really started, of course, decades and decades ago where people said, look, you've got all these billions of cells, neurons in the brain that are connected to each other.

What if we ignore all that complexity?

We just say, look, imagine that you have units that are connected to each other.